Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Larson is slim, tall, well tailored and handsome. He likes to write songs, plays them on a guitar for his family (wife Florence, a onetime radio actress who still holds a union card, children Lex, 14, and Anna Barbara. 13). Born and raised in South Dakota-his mother was once the state's Mother of the Year-Larson made his A.B. magna cum laude in South Dakota's Augustana College, moved on to South Dakota University's law school, there won a Rhodes scholarship. At Oxford, he took first-class honors in jurisprudence, later...
...call new national elections this fall. If Eden is to take over eventually, politicians-Politician Churchill among them-apparently consider it only fair that he be allowed to do so in time to decide whether to risk elections this year or ride for a while with the present slim majority...
Hawkins' win and Jorgenson's fifth gave the Crimson nine points and a sixth place finish in the first day's standings. Yale scored 19 points to take a temporary third, but the varsity still has a slim chance of overtaking the Ellis in tomorrow's events. The varsity's chances hinge on the performances of Don Mulvey in the 100-yard backstroke and Jorgenson, Hawkins, and Mulvey in the 300-yard medley relay...
Holton began his talk by stating there is little chance for world peace if there is no Baruch plan, and that hopes for such a plan being enacted now are slim...
...average Tory increase has been 2.1%. Tory M.P.s, chafing under the discipline required by their slim 18-vote majority, began speculating happily that a 2.1% increase, if extended countrywide, would mean a Tory majority of 100 seats at a general election this fall. Such a majority, they reasoned, would let them slip away for dinner parties and evenings in West End theaters instead of being always on call, lest Labor outpoll the government on a snap vote...